A vender of books.
1527. Higden’s Polycron. (title), Imprented … at ye expences of John Reynes bokeseller.
1542–3. Act 34–35 Hen. VIII. i. Ani printer, bokebinder, bokeseller, or anie other person.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 420. He dissected a Bookseller, and found his heart more then halfe rotted away.
1788. Walpoliana, clxix. 77. One of those booksellers in Paternoster-row who publish things in numbers.
1816. J. Gilchrist, Philos. Etym., Introd. 4. He only glanced over it for a short time in a bookseller’s shop.
Hence Booksellerish a., Booksellerism.
1778. R. Potter in Parr’s Wks. (1828), VIII. 228. The common complaint against authorism and booksellerism.
1815. Southey, Lett. (1856), II. 414. It is impossible that any compositions can be more booksellerish.
